The Most Dangerous Game

#3 Discuss the characterizations of Rainsford and General Zaroff. Which one is more fully characterized? Are both characters plausible?

I think that the author did a great job of characterizing Rainsford and General Zaroff. It is a short story but within the twenty pages you get a total background of them. I think Rainsford was little harder to understand because he was to as bold as Zaroff but by the end you understand what kind of people they are for me I though that General Zaroff became too “ The Shining” near the end and the author really made it clear how wacky he was. But it was good he made him that way because it definitely made the story more compelling and intriguing. Rainsford was plausible he was very smart and the perfect sort of character for the story.

#4 Why does Connell include the “philosophical” discussion between Whitney and Rainsford at the beginning of the story? Does it reveal personal limitation in Rainsford part? Does Rainsford undergo any significant changes in the course of the story? Do we come to know him better as the story proceeds?

I think the author put it in there to give you background on the characters and setting in a better way than just having the narrator do it. He shows Rainsford as a sort of naïve character by having him asking questions and explaining the island as being so dark ad haunting but then later by the end of the story you see him as brave and intelligent and trustworthy. We definitely do come to know him better later on because you have “spent” more time with him and know how he thinks and reacts to things. I also think that he changes throughout the story because he stop worrying about being murdered and starts fighting for himself. He had person limits and that was refusing to help General Zaroff kill people.